The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL& The Times must certainly be of opinion., kith Pope Alexander VI., that there is littl e differert e between the gallows and a statue—lc 7 diserimen :;)77iibulum int er e t statuant—or instead of making a sort of bo ist of it's bad character, it would feel ashamed rF it. However, like Snake in the play, it lives by its ba.d character, and would be ruined in the estimation of the Tories by a good one, being thereby unfit to do their dirty work. .The following is the first sentence of its leading article of yesterday :—" Some years have now elapsed since, in the high career of reform, and after old abuses were wiped away, we began to think that some bounds ought to be put to the excessive lust of change then becoming prevalent." Then, too, came " the excessive lust of change" on the part of our much-respected. Contemporary, and all of a sudden, at the end of 1834, it chopped round to the opposite point of the political compass. Till then it had dashed headlong on in "the high career of reform,''and was still rushing forward at a speed so furious as to be really alarming to others engaged in the same coursz,, when all at once it drew bit, and not only pulled up, but turnssd short round, in order to drive back again over the vev..y ground it had travelled, in the hope and with the de clared intention of undaing all that had been accomplished. For this, too, it now would take credit, just as if the public knew nothing of its corrupt motives, and would attribute its political vagary to conscientious conviction and the purest love for valuable but endangered establishments. Ask the Tories, who made and make the Times their daily tool, what they think of the matter. But let the reader mark the reason assigned by our amusing- Protcusof Print ing -house-square .—" This thought (i.e. that ' some bounds ought to be put to excessive lust of change') had no sooner risen in our minds, than on taking as considerate a view of the future prospects of the country as we were able, we saw, or thought we saw, that thi s tendency to overthrow all that had been sanctioned by time must ultimately embrace the Church in its sweep;:ng desolation." In other words, no sooner had the Times made up its mind to turn about than it discovered that a useful pretext might be found in the cry of Church in danger! Of course, therefore, it declared its hostility to all other improvements, because it was possible that :those improvements might " ultimately embrace the Church" —not merely, as our worthy friend explains, the Church of England, but the Church of the three kingdoms. No reform of any kind was to be undertaken, lest in some way or other " the great and revered establishment" should directly or indirectly be affected. This is the language of the Times of Friday, and it is only necessary to turn to the Times of the day before to show hew grossly and unblush ingly it contradicts itself. The habitual readers of that paper may be inclined to give it some praise for its twenty four hours consisteney, knowing that it not unfrequently happens that one part of the same day's paper refutes the other ; but in the Times of Thursday is inserted a leading article, the sole object of which is, on various grounds, to as sail Ministers for fixing the Coronation at the end of June. Now, one of these grounds is no other than the damage the country will sustain from the alleged postponement by reason of the Coronation of bills for the reform of the Church ! Let those who arc incredulous, if an , ri l such the re b e , rea d t h e f ollowing quotation :—" The grea '- measures," quoth th e m i g h ty antagon i st of Church Refor •' by whi c h th e t empora l we lf are of the Church in both island includi ng th e E sta bli shed Church of Scotland, must be of fected for better or for worse, are now in so backward and unripe a state that it would require the uninterrupted in dustry and labour of the present Session, were it prolonged to the Ist of August, to carry them, even without serious opposition, through both Houses of Parliament." If there were any pretence, or even affectation of consistency in the Times, instead of making it a matter of charge against Go vernment, that these " great measures" seem to it likely to be defer re d, i t ought to rejoice, `°as never yet did a n y man rejoice," that something may occur to lengthen out the ex istence of the Church of England, Scotland, and Ireland for another Session. It suits the purpose of the Times. on Thursday to found an accusation rgainst Ministers upon its own gratuitous supposition that " great measures" " for the temporal welfare of the Church" will be delayed ; and it suits the pesepose of the Times on Friday to forget what it said the day preceeding about the imminent peril to which the Church will inevitably be exposed by the intended changes. It must be owned that our admirable and honest contem porary always writes to a purpose, only it would be better if that purpose were the same for two consecutive days. But a word or two about the coronation, the Tories, and the Times on their behalf, being ready to bite their fingers off that they are destined not to have. the nomination of the new Peers. How cruel of the Ho - use of Commons not on a single occasion to give them A inajority, in order that they might have come in office ust in time to have made their own selection ! The Que'en's wishes would have gone for nothing with them, and air Francis Burdett, Sir James Graham, Mr. Peter Bortlawick, Sir Edward Sugden, Colo nel Sibthorp, and othe r stanch and gifted supporters would have been elevated, to the House of Lords without the consideration of any other claims than the signal services they had rery:ered to their party. Besides, these appen dices to t' - se peerage would have been so consistent and accordant with the additions made by the Tories in former reign's, that it is a thousand pities they were prevented from stzeking on "These ornaments to grace the front of honour;" and we almost think that the Liberal party in the Lower House will repent their obduracy against Tory merits and Tory entreaties. This, in truth, is the source and origin of all the Times has recently said and inserted blaming Ministers for what? For being too economical—for re fusing to continue an expenditure not far short of 230,0001. upon the coronation of Queen Victoria, as upon the coro nation of George IV. Elsewhere we have printed a letter upon this subject, with some useful observations and im portant details. The writer refers to the motion made by Mr. Hume for an account of the expenditure by the Go vernment of Earl Grey on the coronation of William IV., and he adds a conjecture that it did not amount to one tenth of the sum expended by 11ie Tories upon the coro nation of George IV. We believe that such will turn out to be the fact when the document is laid upon the table of the House of Commons ; and we cannot but think that many of the mo re reasona bl e of the Tories will them selves rejoice that in the present state of the finances of the country her Majesty will sanction no such extravagant absurdity, with all its feudal nonsense, as a banquet in Westminster-hall, which only for eating and drinking cost the country 25,0001. How well, too, all this becomes the Times—the Times . 1 which for weeks has been crying out at the top of its 'voice against the disbursement of a few hundreds more or less upfra the mission of the Earl of Durham, for the pacificPA:ion and permanent settlement of our five great Nortb'irn American colonies. Cannot our excellent and vw",satile contemporary, by way of making other people , !..s incons:stent as itself, induce the Marquis of Chandc,s, on the reassembling of Parliament, to bring forward a proposition for laying out 150,0001. or 200,000/. up , an fitting up Westminster-hall, that about 250 indivi duals may dine in it? This would most appropriately fol low his late motion for limiting the expenses of the Earl of Durham. We should like to know what the Times would not have said, and said unanswerably, against the criminal lavishness of Ministers, if with a deficient revenue, though with improving prospects, they had been so besotted as to propose that a quarter of a million should be laid out upon an idle piece of pageantry, totally unconnected with the digniked solemnity of a coronation.—Morning Chronicle. The Ministers, it is obvious, are much disturbed and frightened at the state of things existing between themselves and the Government of Mr. Van Buren. In the convic tion that it was our bdunden duty to make known to our countrymen the indisputable truth with regard to matters which involved the most serious interests of the nation, we have for these two or three days past been placing calmly and conscientiously before the public the facts which have occurred, as described by the latest arrivals from North America, and the conclusions which every man in his right senses must draw from them respecting the proba bilities which are before us. We are not conscious of having exaggerated, distorted, or in any manner misrepre sented a single circumstance which we undertook to state. They were all, indeed, drawn directly from the official docu• silents published in North America. It would have been an insult to the understandings of our readers, but we sub mitted to them any argument connected with those ques tions which would not bear strict examination, and the folly would soon recoil upon ourselves. Let the Ministerial prints which have been ordered to abuse and vilify this journal for its plain speaking upon the affairs of North America try to shake any one assertion that we have made, or to refute any given deduction, to disprove our statement—lst, that the war lately carried on upon the Canadian frontier was not a rebellion by revolted subjects, but a foreign in vasion attempted by American citizens ; 2d, that the mili tary stores, arms, and resources of the United States have been openly employed by their own subjects in the direct invasion of Upper Canada ; 3d, that the American Secre tary of State has in one prominent and important instance made, on the part of his principal, Mr. Van Buren, common cause with the invaders, and with their crimes and out rages against England, by impugning our right of self-de fence, condemning as an unjustifiable aggression our capture of a hostile vessel, which before the eyes of the republican authorities had been engaged in palpable warfare upon the British Crown, and thereby substantially adopting and sup porting the criminals guilty of those acts, which even the proclamations of Mr. Van Buren had reprobated in the face of the world. Mr. Forsyth, the Secretary of State for the Republi c , oug ht t o h ave f e lt the necessity of choosing one side of th e ques ti on or ano th er . If, in conformity with the avowed system of his chief, he really condemned the aggressions upon England co mm itt e d by invading bodies of his fellow-citizens, he ought, according to the most ma nifest consistency, to have held blameless those acts of the Queen of England's officers which, as laid down by all writers on the laws of nations, came within the simplest and clearest rn Os cf *the recognized jurisdictiisn of iniured Gc verttttehis—such as the following t,C'.. their den, wherever that might be the otlirt‘A - ie unpunished and unmolested violators of the national sovereign* of Great Beltain, or, - et the contrary, denying the right of Eliiia4A it) :protect her own soil and subject' ill swell a 'cane. Mir. Forsyth ought frankly entl ttstlncily— , -not VI- infplic,tation—to pro claim that the seizure of Navy 'sand, and the fire kept up thence on British subjects navigating the St. Laurence, were lawM and perfectly justifiable nets ; and that, while American citizens had a tall right to attack the terri tory of England when they pleased, British subjects should net be permitted with impunity to punish the assailants, or to protect themselves from injury Mr. Vor ii th has not acknowledged this to ht his doctrine ; but he has plaiuly Implied it, and either so indiscreet, or so obdu rate, Las the gentleman shown himself, as to prejudge the whole result of the inquiry, which he asserts to be in pro gres,f, n behalf of the American G , ,vernment, and to an ticipate that it must end in establishing, with regard to the capture and destruction of the Caroline, a case of just complaint against Great Britain, and of " redress" or quar rel ! Will it not be an awkward matter for Mr. Forsyth to recede from such peremptory pretensions ? And would it not, therefore, have been more wise to ascertain-Ist, whe ther they could be justified by facts ; 2d, whether they would be submitted to by England ? Now, with these things star ing us in the face, we ask whether the Times can be blamed (abused, of course, it would be—but honestly blamed) for pointing out soberly and temperately, as it has done, what has been the villany of the Republican pirates who invaded Canada ; what the conduct of the Republi can Minister, who has loudly condemned the only_ proceeding of British subjects, whereby the outrages of thej pirates upon Canada could be effectually resisted ; and what the con se quenc es likely t o e n su e from th e p rem ises th u brought under public notice ? It is not by vague assum tions of a desire in two Governments to preserve the peat that the question can be logically or rationally settle what whether one of them does or does not really cherish such pacific dispositions? A petitio principii is no proof. There may be a pressure from without upon the Cabinet of Mr. Van Buren, as well as on a Cabinet nearer home—a pressure from the worst class of the population in both countries, but still of a population which has votes to give in support of a Minister or in opposition to him. A large portion of the frontier inhabitants of the United States— we might go further and say that a very large portion of the people throughout the whole of the frontier States, in those States which may be supposed to have views on Upper, Lower Canada, and New Brunswick, viz., Ohio, New York, Vermont, and Maine, are not the most pacifically inclined towards Great Britain, or the most anxious for an equitable as compared with a favourable termination to the existing controversies. Certain persons of great influence in Maine have importuned the President and Congress to let the State of Maine take the law into their own hands, and run ,the boundary line of their north-east frontier through New i ßrunswick,by their own authority, according to the full measure of their own claims, without condescending to ask leave of the British Government, and at the peril of the 'whole confederated republic. Such patriots would have no rvery strong objection, we fear, to any, even the most war like enclitic , of the still anadjusted disputes. Qu.—Can the President venture to disappoint them, admitting, as we I tio, that his intentions are perfectly pacific? - But there Ire other points of difference, and in more distant quarters of North America. We believe that a project has been actually announced by the President of the United States for taking and holding possession on the Pacific frontier of the vast and fertile territory circumjacent of the Columbia river, to which under old, and till of late, un disputed prescription, the title of Great Britain is actually unassailable. In that quarter, as we are given to under stand, the encroachments of the United States within the last eighteen years have been regular, rapid, and enormous. There was (we believe about the year 1828) an agreement that matters should remain provisionally as they then were, and that in the year 1838 (now) they should be definitively settled. It appears, however, that we run some risk of having an unilateral settlement of that question provided for us, the President having, upon an alleged report of some persons employed by him, demanded " appropria tions" for taking the country bodily into the hands of the United States, and securing the " conquest," for such it would be, by a military station. Lord Palmer ston therefore had better look about him. The country will have made a precious bargain of it, if this in capable, yet presumptuous, Minister, after having brought the foreign affairs of the nation into a like state of prosperity with that wherein Mr. Spring Rice from week to week exhibits our finances, shall adopt the same expedient for extricating himself which some of our contemporaries within these few days have ascribed to the nimble-heeled Chancellor of the Ex chequer, and fairly run away. But again we ask, is a per son of Lord Durham's petulant, vain, and schoolboy cha racter, the sort of guardian in whom to repose the adminis tration of the national interests in North America at a pe riod so fraught with perplexity and danger ? Where has he given proofs of statesmanlike ability ? Where has he satisfied any shrewd observer that he could govern men— where that he could inspire them with confidence in his abilities as a directing statesman ? Rejected by three English Cabinets, he has (for its own, not English, pur poses) been flattered and bedizened by one despotic Court. There is a " pride which licks the dust ;" there is a vanity so blind that it sets mortification at defiance. Has Lord Durham ever asked himself—" Why does Lord Melbourne send me across the Atlantic ?" We suspect he has not.—Times. The Dorchester Unionists, who were so brutally treated by the Whig Government in 1834—and who have just re turned to their native country—arc about to be marched in procession through half of London on Monday next, and afterwards to he entertained at a public dinner by the Radicals at White Conduit House ! We are exceedingly sorry that these poor men should have lent themselves to such an arrangement. They have been most cruelly treated by the Whigs—but the persons who are about to parade them through the streets are not the persons who will find them compensation for their wrongs. No. The Radical getters-up of this White Conduit House " feed" are anxious only to forward their own selfish projects by the intended display. The money to be expended on eating and drinking mould render the Dorchester " victims" independent for life ; but the White Conduit House Radicals, while they will spout without limit on the grievances of their " victim guests," will carefully keep their money in their pockets We are, we repeat, exceedingly sorry that the Easter Mon day foolery in question is to take place at the expense of men who have already sufferred so much as these victims of Whig misrule have done.—Morning Herald. A grand procession of the various trades of the metro polis, in honour of the return of the Dorchester labourers, is to take on Monday next. The order of the procession appears in another part of our impression. The regula tions are certainly well calculated to secure the maintenance of order, and sustained, as no doubt they will be, by that decorous and peaceable demeanour so pre-eminently charac teristic of the English artizan, there need be scarcely any apprehension entertained of those immediately taking part in the procession not conducting themselves with the ut most order and propriety. We know the Trades, and ap preciate their character too well to feel the slighest appre hension that they will not be found perfectly competent to conduct themselves on any occasion of a general manifesta tion, without any outbreak of violence and disorder. It is, therefore, from no apprehension of this kind that we regret that any such procession should have been resolved upon. We regret it because we see no good to be effected by the demonstration ; and whenever exhibitions of this kind take place without an adequate object and result, the moral influence of the parties becomes impaired. What was the result of the former procession in reference to these identical Dorchester labourers? Did it hasten their pardon ? No. Did it not, on the contrary, for a time weaken to impotency the influence of the { Trades' Unions, of whom, judging by the result, it might rather he regarded as the funeral procession, than as a demonstra tion in behalf of their oppressed brethren? That proces sion was either ill-advised, or the trades, in not subsequently taking ulterior measures for carryin g their object, shewed themselves inefficient to the task they had undertaken. That, however, was an error of judgment, for which the genera! sympathy felt towards the sufferers readily furnished an excuse, but for the proposed demonstration on Monday next, we must candidly admit that we can perceive neither pretence nor excuse. There is no adequate object to be gained. Everyone must rejoice in the victims of tyrannical persecution being at length restored to their families, friends, and country—and the occasion of their return is de serving of a jubilee—but a procession savours more of a triumph than of a rejoicing ; it assumes something of a minatory character, an air of defiance, which on the present occasion we think misplaced and uncalled-for. We should wish to see the Trades husband their strength, and reserve these general demonstrations for occasions when great na tional interests are at stake—such as when the men of Birmingham mustered their forces under the banners of the Reform Act. The object then was worthy of the effort, and the effort proved equal to the object. But what triumph is now to be achieved ? What is expected ? No good is anticipated ; and confidently as we rely on the good conduct and demeanour of the Trades, there is much to be apprehended from evil-disposed persons—thieves and pick pockets—who infest every metropolis, making the procession an opportunity of c rea ti ng di stur b ance and disorder, in order to facilitate their usual avocations. The deeper our sympathy with the Trades, the more we prize their co-ope ration in support of the principles most essential to the general welfare, the greater our regret at seeing any the slightest expenditure of their valuale energies without a commensurate purpose.—Morning Advertiser. Notwithstanding the ancient adage, that every body knows his own business best, we do moat potently believe ti_K SUN LONDON; SATURDAY, APRIL 14, Og; that the respectable publishers are altogether wrong in sup posing that the proposed extension of the duration of covy right world to ,their interests; . We Silk this net with a - View to the ifiiiiiediaN intereSts of tWo or three vvltoeiWelitiiiiiiiiissiotis, held by virtue of a public and general right, Might perhaps be interfered with by the ex tension of copyright to the rettresentati'vea of Atktifers they might feel the alteration of the law to be a temporary mis chance. 130.t their own sense of justice would wen b finish that feeling .; and with regard to their business on a bioad and general scale—looking to future copyrights, as well as to those now . in their possession—we are satisfied that the alteration would work beneficially for them. An in stance has lately been brought before the public to induce a different conclusion. Mr. Tegg asks some questions about " Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion," the answers to which he seems to think must be conclusive against the proposed extension of copyrght. But this instance has no more resemblance to the state of the law which Mr. Talfourd's Bill proposes to establish than chalk has to cheese. If Mr. Ttlfourd's Bill proposed to vest copyrights in wealthy corpora tions, or to give a perpetual monopoly to any particular establishment of the printing of valuable works, there would be some cogency in the example he brings for ward ; but, as it is, there is no cogency at all. His example exhibits only what logicians call ignoratio cleachi. He forgets or mistakes the thing he wants to confute. It is one thing to sho,v that the vesting of a copy right for ever in a wealthy Corporation is prejudicial to the interests of the booksellers and the information o f a cheap-literature-fancying public ; and quite another thing to show that the extension of copyright from twenty-eight to sixty years is not for the encouragement of " authors," and the promotion of good and sound literature. It is to be observed that Mr. Talfourd's Bill does not profess to be for the encouragement. of booksellers and the promotion of printing, and if it should appear that authors could not obtain justice without diminishing the gains of booksellers and printers, that ought to be no reason against the alteration of the law. But we are happy to believe that in this case justice to authors, and prosperity to publishers and printers would both be promoted by an alteration of the law. If Lord Clarendon's history had been under the operation of such a law as Mr. Talfourd proposes it would long ago have been public property, and Mr. Tegg might have printed it on whity-brown paper, with fifteen mistakes in every page, and have sent it by ship-loads to America or any other place he thought proper, at no other expense than that of the coarse materials and clumsy workmanship employed. But supposing any work not so peculiarly circumstanced as Lord Clarendon's, and still within the sixty years of copyright, can any man in his senses doubt that the representative of the author, whether for his own profit, or for the fame of those from whom he inherited, would hesitate to deal with the publishers upon such fair terms as should allow an abundant circulation of the book ? "We have experience to guide us in these matters, and we venture to affirm that copyright does not interfere with the abundance and the cheapness of good editions, but it does interfere with those coarse jobbers in publications who send out by the cartload their bales of printed trash, fit only for the wrapping up of butter and cheese, and not at all for being read by those who esteem correctness as of any value. We ask of any one just to look at the editions of Scott, of Byron, of Southey, of Crabbc, of Wordsworth, which have been recently pub lished in five-shilling volumes, during the existence of the copyright in the authors or their assignees. Will it be pretended that such editions would have been brought out cheaper or more abundantly if there had been no copyright, and if any ono who pleased might have printed and sold these works ? We appeal to publishers whether they think these works would, or could, have been " got up" more cheaply, and yet in a manner as useful for the public generally, if there h a d b een no exelu- give property in them? We - think we may venture to say that we know they could not. Neither Mr. Cadell, nor Mr. Murray, nor Messrs. Longman, nor Mr. Moxon, would have ventured to go to an expense which nothing but an immense circulation can repay, exce pt that they kew they were protected from the competition of vile, coarse, incor rect editions, which the tasteless and the unwary would be induced to buy, on account of their cheapness. The monopoly, as some foolish objectors please to call it, works two way. If it hinders every printer who hap pens to want a job for his office from undertaking a " cheap edition," it protects those who venture to go to great expense upon a cheap edition, relying upon the extensive and exclusive sale. It would he well for such as wish that justice and common sense should prevail in this question to compare the cheap editions of Dr. John son's works published within these ten years with the cheap editions of Dr. Southey's works. In the former there is no exclusive copyright—in the latter there is. The volumes of Johnson, containing about the same quantity of printed matter, arc actually dearer than the volumes of which the copyright is still in existence, and they are upon bad paper, badly put together, and the printing is most vilely incorrect. We have a very great respect for Lord Clarendon's " History of the Rebellion," and we should gladly see it in the house of every man who has a library, but we protest that we should rather it re mained as scarce as it is than see it come forth like a certain edition of Doctor Johnson's works in six volumes, which the gentleman who sighs over the limited sale of Lord Clarendon's work may perhaps know something about. We say, then, that putting justice to authors out of the question, and supposing that, from the lightness of their tasks, the little research they require, the healthful ness and hopefulness of their occupations, the honour and deference which is shown them in British society—suppos ing that, from all these equally true and cogent reasons, they are to be denied anything beyond a twenty-eight years' right in what they produce, still it is for the benefit of the public—for the advancement of what is correct and elegant, rather than that which is incorrect and coarse— that Mr. Talfourd's Bill for the extension of Copyright should pass.—Morning Post. PESTILENCE IN AMERICA.—A mortal plague, said to be the same as the " Black Death" which raged so fatally in England and in Europe some five or six centuries ago, has broken out in the western and south-western borders of the United States. As yet it has been exclusively confined to the Indians. It attacks the head and loins suddenly, and with dreadful pain ; and in about two hours the victim is a corpse. The body then swells enormously, and turns instantly black. Some idea may be formed of the fearful progress and havoc of death on the prairies from the fact that within a few weeks more than 33,000 savages died. Of a lodge of 1,600 Mandans (a noble tribe) only 35 remained alive. 10,600 Assineboins have died ; and deserted wigwams, newly-made mounds, or putrifying corpses, attended only by the croaking riven and the screaming eagle, mark the mournful desolation of the Indian forests and prairies. The Crows and Black Feet, so eloquently described in Irving's " Astoria" and " Rocky Mountains," have suffered dreadfully ; and more than one of the smaller tribes have been summoned, man, woman, and papoose, to the tribunal of Manitoulin, the Great Spirit, not one remaining to tell that they were once a nation of warriors I The disease is supposed to have originated from small-pox amongst the traders, and from them to have been communicated to the Indians, where it soon appeared in the aggravated form of " The Black Death." An inquest was held on the 31st ult., at Kelvedon, on Elizabeth Partridge, aged 22, wife of John Partridge, shoemaker, Kelvedon. Various rumours circulated respecting the cause of her death, which induced the parish authorities to institute the inquiry. About three weeks ago Partridge, the husband, forced deceased, who was in very delicate health, to leave the house at midnight, almost in a state of nudity, and afterwards severely beat her with a large cord, and otherwise ill-treated her. A post mortem examination took place, but from the evidence of the surgeon little was elicited to prove that the death was occasioned by the injuries. The external parts bore evident marks of violence, being very much disco loured. The Jury, after seven hours' close investigation, re turned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against the husband, who was committed for trial at the Session this week ; but circum stances having transpired to give the case a more serious cha racter, it has been transmitted to the Assize, and the parties bound over to prosecute for murder.—Essex Herald. According to the most recent accounts from St. Petersburgh, a great change has been made in the plan of the journey of the young Grand Duke Alexander, the Emperor's eldest son. His Imperial Highness will go first to Stockholm and then to London, where he will probably remain till after the coronation of Queen Victoria ; then visit the Hague ; af terwards make a tour in the fine countries on the banks of the Rhine, visit the capitals of southern Germany, and arrive in Vienna towerds autumn. After some week's stay there, his Imperial Higness will go to Franzensbrunn, in Silesia, where the Empress, his mother, intends to take the benefit of the mineral waters. The Emperor of Russia will go from Berlin first to Toplitz, and thence also to Franzensbrunn, which seems to be intended as the rendezvous of the Imperial family. HYDROPHOBIA.—About two months ago a spaniel bitch, belonging to William Brown, milkman, of Cromer street, St. Pancras, had pups , when , whilst looking over them, the bitch bit him on the hand slightly, to which he paid little or no attention, until the wound began to inflame and fester. He became alarmed, and caused the animal to be killed. The wound gradu all y healed, n his Tuesday morning last he milk, and d d a N p l p r. ea ßow ro r dt n o be o -en i t o r g o o u o n d d l w th al a k od as s u p s i i r l i a t l s. wit o h went with his milk as usual to some of the officers at the E Division Station-house, in Judd-street, Brunswick-square, where he conversed cheerfully with the officers, and returned home, and complained to his wife of being very ill, and be laid down ; but a very short period had elapsed before he was seized with the most alarming symptoms—he foamed at the mouth, and became raving ; and it required four men to hold him down, in order to prevent his committing violence, and eventually a straight-waistcoat was put upon him. Drs. Roots, Skinner, and Hayman, were called upon to attend him, when it was ascertained that he was labouring; under symptoms of hydrophobia, and every thing that medical skill could devise was done for the unfortunate man, to no purpose; he continued to rave and struggle in the greatest agony until ten o'clock on Tuesday night, when he expired. The deceased was about 40 years of age, and has left a wife and family. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. CANADA; Colonial- Offii::ti, Ddivnind-siiidt; April i; Igdfit. A despatch has been received from John Colhorne; 0. C. B:, dotiriiander ofthe Forces in Canada, dated Oth Allikch, 1666 ; of Vihicih th 4 klowing is an elifact: Eztract of d. Pespitch frorii Lieutenant-General Sir J. Col bdriie; G. C: td Loid dierieig, dated riovernment house, Montreal, March 9,183 a. " I have the honour to transmit to you the accompanying copy of a letter from Colonel Maitland, dated 4th March, 1838, reporting the result of an able and gallant attack which he made on a party of brigands from Sandusky-bay, in the State of Ohio, who had taken possession of Point Pelle Island, in Lake Erie, about forty miles from Amherstburgh. " Our frontier is at present so closely watched and guarded by the volunteer corps of both provinces, that no serious im pression tan be made by the parties of brigands that are car rying on the piratical mode of warfare along our extended line ; but I trust that the late disgraceful acts on the part of the lawless population of the neighbouring States, will compel the American Government to adopt effectual measures to pre vent a repetition of the outrages which have been committed by the citizens of the United States." Amherstburgh, U. C., March 4, 1838. When I wrote to you on Sunday last, announcing the defeat of the pirates at Fighting Island, I did not think I should have to report to you another instance of a British island being taken possession of in this quarter. Early in the week I received information from different quarters that Point Pelle Island had been taken possession of by the Patriots from Sandusky-bay. This island is of con siderable magnitude, being from seven to nine miles in length, and from four to five in breadth ; it is situated in Lake Eric, about forty miles from Amherstburgh, and twenty miles from the shore. I sent three or four local officers to ascertain the fact of their being there ; they went close to the shore, and were fired upon ; this, together with the circumstance of several people who had gone over to the island to look after their property and who were detained by the Patriots, confirmed me that the report was true. I, there fore, on Thursday afternoon, dispatched Captain Glasgow, of the Royal Artillery, to inspect the strength of the ice, and report_ his opinion to me as to the practicability of moving guns and troops to that place. He returned the following day, at twelve o'clock, and reported that the ice was practicable and strong enough to pass. I therefore determined, without loss of time, to attack them by day-break the following morning; accordingly, with two guns (six-pounders), the four companies of the 32d regiment, one company of the 83d regiment, a small detachment of thirty belonging to the Sandwich troop of cavalry and St. Thomas's troop of cavalry, one company of the Essex volunteer militia, and a small party of Indians, moved that evening, under my own immediate command, eighteen miles along the lake shore, where I halted for some time to rest the horses, and, at two o'clock in the morning, commenced my march on the lake ice, arriving at the island just at break of day. I had previously arranged my plan of attack, which was as follows :—I directed Captain Brown, with the first and second companies of the 32d regiment, to proceed round to the south cod of the island, and to take up a position on the ice to in tercept any attempting to escape by that direction ; he was accompanied by a detachment of about twenty-five men of the Sandwich and St. Thomas's cavalry. Navin. - made this ar rangement, I landed myself, with the remainder of the force and two guns, at the north end; the rebels fled on my ap proach, and escaped into the woods. I was here informed, by some of the loyalists who had been made prisoners by the pa triots on the island, that they were in force to the amount of about five hundred ; the troops moved on in an extended order, and pursued them through the island ; but, as the wood wa thick, and the snow extremely deep and heavy, the men were much retarded in their progress. The rebels, finding themselves hemmed in on every side, moved out the south end of the island, the only place by which they could escape to the American shore,' and advanced in line, upwards of 300 men, well armed and organised, upon Captain Brown's detachment, where they met with the greatest resistance ; a brisk fire being kept up on both sides for some time, and several of Captain Brown's detachment having fallen, he determined to charge them, which he did, and forced them back (to the wood, where they retreated in great confusion) at the paint of the bayonet. I particularly beg to recommend this circumstance to the notice of his Excellency the Lieutenant-General Commanding. On the road, inside of the wood, the rebels had a number of sleighs, by which means they succeeded in carrying away about forty of their wounded men, the others succeeded in escaping at the southernmost point of the island, and got over to the American coast] leaving killed on the spot their commanding officer, Colonel Bradley, a Major Hovrdley, and Captains Van Rensselaer and M'Keon, and several others; some prisoners were taken, several of whom were severely wounded. I regret to say that the taking of this island has not been gained without considerable loss on our part ; and I have to request that you will report, for his Excellency's information, that thirty soldiers of the 32d Regiment fell in this affair, two of whom were killed, the others, some dangerously, some se verely wounded. I sincerely regret the loss of so many brave soldiers, and feel it the more when I reflect they did not fall before an honourable enemy, but under the fire of a desperate gang of murderers and marauders. A list of the killed and wounded I have the honour herewith to enclose. Having scoured the woods, and satisfied myself that the island was cleared, I re-formed the troops, and about five o'clock in the evening proceeded back, and the soldiers re turned to their quarters at Arnherstburgh that night. When you take a view of the circumstances of this affair, I need hardly detail to you the arduous duties the soldiers hare had to perform from the time they left this until their return, travelling, as they did, forty miles in an excessively cold night, twenty of which were across the lake ; accomplishing the object I had in view, namely, liberating the loyalists detained on the island, gaining possession of the place, restoring it to the Proprietors, defeating, with considerable loss, the enemy, and returning again to their barracks, within thirty hours. My warmest thanks are due to the whole of the officers who supported me in this undertaking, and it is impossible for me, in words, to do justice to the gallant soldiers of her Majesty's Royal Artillery, 32d Regiment, 83d Regiment, and the loyal Volunteers of cavalry, infantry, and the few Indians, who con stituted the force under my command. I have to regret that Mr. Thomas Parish, a private in the St. Thomas' troop of volunteer cavalry, was killed in rear of the 32d Regiment, by a musket shot. Colonel Prince of Sandwich, Mr. Sheriff Lachlan, Captain Gir:y, and several other gentlemen, asked my permission to accompany me, which they did, and gallantly acted with their rifles, with our soldiers, against the rebels in the woods. I found them very useful, from their knowledge of the locality of the place. I trust this second repulse on this frontier of the American banditti (let it be understood that I have it, from satisfactory authority, that the whole of the gang driven from Pelle Island are American citizens), will be a lesson to them, that they are not with impunity to hold British territory. A large tri-coloured flag, with two stars, and the word " Liberty" worked upon it, and eleven' prisoners, were also taken, some of whom state that they were formerly on Navy Island; about forty American muskets, some ammunition, swords, 3,:c. were also taken. _ lam informed by the prisoners that it was the decided intention of these people to land on the Canadian shore last night, and march upon Amhurstburgh, destroying by fire on their way, all the houses, &c., they had to pass, and for which six sleigh loads of American citizeis, from Sandusky bay, had joined them the night previous to my attack, and made their escape back again immediately on my appearance in the front of the island. I have the honour to request that you will lay the substance of this letter before his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, and forward it to Montreal, for the information of his Excel lency the Lieutenant-General Commanding. I have the honour to be, &c. JOHN MAITLAND, Lieutenant• Colonel, Commanding 32d Regiment, and Colonel Commanding Western Frontier. Col. Foster, Commanding Forces in Upper Canada, &c. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. T. D. Alderson, pewterer, Great Marlborough-street, May 4, at half-past ten—W. Martin, wine merchant, Newgate-strert, May 4, at half-past eleven—G. Boughey, Jeffrey-square, St. Mary Axe, May 4, at twelve—R. C. Rout, tailor, Southampton-street, Hol born, May 7, at half-past eleven—E. Matthews, silkman, Lad lane, May 7, at half-past twelve—B. Oram, chemist, Blackman street, April 24, at two—E. Cawley, upholder, Bridport, Dorset shire, May 4, at two—W. Charleton and J. H. Redden, white lead m anufacturers, Berners-street, Commercial-road East, May 5, at eleven—J. Sandford, stationer, Shrewsbury, May 5, at one—B. Fullwood, annatto-manufacturer, Somerset-place, Hoxton, May 4, at eleven. In the Country. G. K. Loudon, stone-mason, Cheltenham, May 16, at three, at the offices.of Mr. Gyde, solicitor, Cheltenham—R. Stone, surgeon, Oxford, May 14, at ten, at the Roebuck Inn, Oxford—J. Everett, grocer, Burwell, Cambridge, June 11, at the Bull Inn, Cambridge _—G. Stevens, grocer, Wolverhampton, May 11, at three, at the Swan Hotel, Wolverhampton -1. J. T. Hayward, common-brevrer, Dounfield, Gloucestershire, May 8, at nine, at the Golden-cross, Cainseross, Gloucestershire—T. Higgins. jun. watchm.ker, Gloucester, May 4, at ten, at the office of Mr. Smallridge, Glou cester—M. Wood, boiler-maker, Manchester, May 9, at eleven, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES, MAY 4. J. Appleyard, acornmerchant, Leeds—C. Perkins, small-ware manufacturer, :Manchester-_J. W. A. Parsons, hosier, Wigmore street, Cavendish-square—l. B. Martin, hosier, Salisbury—T. Theobald, bombazin-manufacturer, Norwich—W. Joy, bookseller, Paternoster-row—J. Calvert, dealer, Pall-mall. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Davie and M. Body, woollen-drapers, Callington, Cornwall —J. Williams and E. Smith, woollen-drapers, Hexham, Northum berland—H. Crawcour and D. De Lara, stationers, Mount-street, Whitechapel-road—J. Radf or d, sen., and J. Radford, jun:, uphol sterers, Tiverton, Devonshire—E. Messenger and C. Wilford, boot-manufacturers, Gracechurch-street—J. Bye and S. Cleaver, cement-manufacturers, Sittingbourne, Kent—T. H. Alison and J. Fairfield, cornmerchants, Liverpool —W. Yapp and C. E. Dra per, chemists, Hereford—G. and H. Turvill, butchers, West Worldham, Southampton—J. Upton, J. Nicholls, and W. F. Steer, engineers, Battersea—J. Sewell and S. Davis, watchmakers, Liverpool—J. and S. Darby, brewers, Cookham, Berkshire—W. A. Alger and J. Nield, woollen-manufacturers, Midge-hill, Saddle worth, York—R. E. Branston and G. Whitehead, printers, Fleet street. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. GEORGE and THOMAS KINNELL, millspinners, Dunferm• line, April 17, and May 1, at t.co o'clock, at the Spire Inn, Dun. fermline. THOMAS COLLIER WALKER, commission-agent, Edin burgh, April 20, and May 7, at two o'clock, at the Old Signet Hall, Royal Exchange, Edinburgh. I'ItENCH LINEN TRADE. ~-~ :---_ We extract the following from an article he the Constitu tiqiia4, en the state of the linen trade in Franc e a the Wariniity 4,4 linen yarn imported into France in 1831 was 14,532 kilograillflid§p /thigh in 1837 had increased to 3,1v5,t,7e kilogramtes. fire IMpOfte of linen cloths in 1831 were 83,930 Ittlogrertimee. The value of the yarn in 1837 wet 14,400,000 fr: ;: of tite liutbs, 2,700,000 1 r., giving a total of i7,19'0,00'01r. Out of this Sign the value of the flax, as the raw material, rr1!..7 b'e put at the outside at six mil the surplus, therefore; of eleven millions, additional value ifilpt+el the raw: materiai L'y manufacturing pro cesses, represents the sftn that might be sprelld tiver the de partments where this mantifact , erii it Carried on if tbo Peale of duties did not leave so wide a do* fur the entry of Eng lish linens. The duties imposed in England on foreign linens vary from fourpence to eighteenpenee per square yard, according to quality; or arc replaced by the ad eatte-eni duty of 40 per cent. Taking, however, the unit of the Customs' scale in France, viz., 100 kilogrammes, or 2001bs , and cal cul sting the number of square yards that, according to the different qualities of the cloth, would be required to make up th's weight, it is found that the propottions of the French duties to the English vary from I to 4 33 to 1 to 4.76, show ing that, according to the English tariff the English work man enjoys a protection four times greater than the French workman under the French tariff. This applies only to unbleached linens. Those that. are bleached are charge able with double duty ; but enormous quantities are im ported into France under the denomination of unbleached linens once washed, while they are in reality white enough to allow of their being sold as bleached linens when they are once put in circulation in this country. In damasks the French duty is 160 f. per 100 kilogrammes; whence a dozen of napkins, weighing 2.30 kilogrammes, and worth 57f., would pay, on importation into France, sf. 60c. The Eng lish duty is 2s. per square yard ; each napkin, therefore, mea suring a square yard (the usual size in France), the same dozen of napkins would pay, on entering England, 245. or 30f. ; that is, more than eight times the duty they would be liable in France. As long as the spinning and weaving of flax was carried on by hand France had the advantage over England, because she could manufacture in this way both bet ter and cheaper ; but since the application of machinery to this branch of industry the advantage of England over France is incontestible. Even in the former case the prohibitory duty of 40 per cent. hindered all competition on the side of tit" latter country. It is only fair, therefore, for the French Go vernment either to give the French workman the same protec tion that the English manufacturer enjoys by raising the tariff, or else to obtain an equivalent diminution of duties on the side of England." THE MURDER IN TIPPERARY.—The account we gave on Saturday of the barbarous murder of Mr. Cooper and the attempt on the life of Mr. Weyland has been fully corroborated by the statements of the local journals, which one and all attribute its perpetration to the cause to which we as cribed it. It appears that the unfortunate victim was agent to several estates, and among them to the lands of the Archbishop of Cashel, and that in that capacity, he was forced some time since to eject a number of defaulting tenants and cast them on the world without a house to shelter them, or the means to procure subsistence without levying it on their neighbours. Those persons, or at least some of them, we have been told, frequently remonstrated with the agent. They sent no tices to him, we are informed, at different periods, either to give up the ground which they had tilled and cultivated and on which they and their forefathers lived, or abide the conse quence—an intimation well understood by poor Mr. Cooper, as he never went abroad without serious apprehension—a fact proved by the circumstance of his never venturing beyond the precincts of his residence without being well armed. What ever his feelings of commiseration were for the ejected ten ants he would not obey their mandate—he was accordingly made the martyr of a system to which more bloodshed and butchery can be traced than even to its twin . ; sister—the Tithe system. We are happy to say that the perpetrators, or some of them, of this shocking murder have been taken. Waterford Chronicle. MELANCHOLY CAsE.—On Monday Euphemia Tait or Pride, the wife of a collier residing at Bo ;head Windhiil, near the village of Pathead, a few miles south of this city, at tempted to put an end to the existence of her own child, by throwing it over a window about thirty feet high. She was brought into Edinburgh on the same day, and lodged in the Police-office, where the case is at present undergoing exami nation. The poor woman is evidently deranged in her mind, and would appear to be utterly unconscious of what has oc curred ; for she is frequently speaking in incoherent terms of her " loving baby." The child, which is about a year old, is much injured, and is not expected to live.—Scotsman. CURIOUS FACTS.—The Maiden, an instrument by which criminals were beheaded in Scotland, was introduced into that country by Earl Morton, and he was the first person who suffered by it ; M. Guillotine, a French surgeon, who gave his name to an improvement of the maiden, died also by his own invention ; and Deacon Brodie, who was executed many years ago for robbing the Excise Office in Edinburgh, invented the drop by which all criminals now suffer in Britain ; and, strange to say, was the first man who was hanged on his own commodious gallows. GALWAY.—The bills of indictment against John Andrew Kirwan, Esq., J. P. for the county of Galway, drawn up on the finding of a coroner's inquest, which returned a verdict of " wilful murder 1" against that gentleman, have been unanimously ignored by the grand jury of the county. The case—involving the homicide of two persons shot in a riot during the late election at Tuam, by the constabulary, in absolute self-defence—is too recent to require recapitulation. Suffice it to say, that the Grand Jury, composed of Whigs, Radicals, and Conservatives, in ignoring the bills, declared that much as they wished to give Mr. Kirwan the consum mate triumph of a trial at bar, they found it impossible to find a bill in any shape, consistently with the oaths they had taken; and they highly complimented him for his impartial and spirited conduct as a magistrate on the occasion. Dublin Mail. GEORGE IV.'S VISIT TO WATERLOO.—" Na mur, Oct. 1, 1821.—Early this morning we quitted Brussels for this place. We reached the little village of Waterloo about twelve o'clock, accompanied by Prince Frederick of Holland, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Clancarty, and a number of persons of minor distinction. The King went into the little church of the village. examined all the tablets of in scription upon the walls, then visited the willow tree under which was buried the shattered limb of Lord Anglesey, and seemed greatly impressed with all around him. The day was very unfavourable—it rained torrents ; but notwithstanding this the King went to the plains of Waterloo, accompanied by the Duke, and examined every part of the various positions occu pied by the army in that dreadful battle. When I saw the verdure of this plain in full and luxuriant vegetation, I could n t help dwelling on many of the extraordinary thoughts which Lord Byron has advanced in his poem when speaking of this tremendous engagement. The blades of grass on which we tread might be a part of some warrior's frame who had died on this plain—some friend, perhaps, whom we had known and admired. "—Sir William Knighton's Memoirs. On Wednesday morning a young man named Fran cis Hynes was found dead in his bed at his lodgings, in Mr. Thompson's, Hampshire Hog-yard, Bloomsbury. It appears the deceased had been for some weeks in a most distressed state, having had no food unless now and then a cup of coffee, which one of his fellow lodgers gave him. The appearance of his body, when removed by the E division of police to the work house (where it now awaits a Coroner's inquest), was most appalling, being literally skin and bone. On Thursday evening one of the firemen, named Daniel M'Harvey, belonging to the engines on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, came to a melancholy end just as he arrived at the Manchester station. He incautiously stepped from the engine whilst it was in progress, and falling on the rails, the wheels passed over one of his legs and one arm. He was taken up, and conveyed without delay to the Infirmary, where he died within a quarter of an hour after his arrival.— Liverpool Telegraph. MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—ShortIy before eleven on Saturday night, the inmates of the Benedictine Convent, King-street, Hammersmith, were much alarmed by a loud knocking and ringing at the entrance-gate, which, on the porter opening, was found to proceed from a beautiful and elegantly-dressed young female, about eighteen, who claimed protection for herself and sisters. The principal, on being made acquainted with the application, questioned her as to her name and connections, when she stated her name to be Hortense Mailliard, that she was a native of Ar tois, in France, where her father resides, but that she had for some time been governess in the family of a gentleman at Datchet, near Windsor, which she had that evening clandes tinely left. It being against the rule of the establishment to admit her without previous inquiry, a bed was kindly pro cured for her at the Sussex Arms in the Broadway, whither she was taken. She had not been there long, however, before she became dreadfully excited ; and after disturb ing the whole house, by some means or o th er , at present a mystery, contrived to leave it, and found her way back to the nunnery, where her application for admittance attracted the a ttention of a policeman of the T division, who, on questioning conveyed her her actions very unsati s f actory an d i nco h erent, her to the station-house at Brook-green. While there Inspector Morgan elicited from her that she had two sisters in England, one residing in Spital-square, the other at Walworth, respecting whom she had recently nightly had such horrid dreams, fancying one had been murdered while at confessional, and the other assassinated in the public streets, that they had so operated on her mind as to render her totally unconscious of what she was doing. Every attention her dis tressing state required was p a id h er d ur i ng t h e rema i n d er o f the night at the station-house, and on Sunday, having become -Snore tranquil, she was sent, accompanied by a policeman in private clothes, to Spiral-square, where she was delivered into the care of her sister. In America the trade of a chimney-sweeper is un known. There are whole States, including some of the largest towns, where such a creature was never heard of. To supply this defect, every man sets fire to the soot in his chim ney, by way of clearing —a practice often productive of serious conflagrationp. On Wednesday evening an inquest was held at the sign of the Elephant, Kingsland, before Mr. Baker, the coro ner, and a respectable jury, on the remains of Thomas Staggs, who committed a most determined act of suicide. From the evidence adduced it seemed that the deceased, who was by business a brick-maker, had been for some days labouring un der an attack of brain fever. On Saturday he requested his daughter would bring him a pen-knife, that he might pare his toe• nails with it. She complied with his request, and being left alone for a few minutes, he cut his throat h. a most shock ing manner, and died very shortly afterwards. The jury re turned a verdict of " Temporary insanity... FIRE SAFES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRIPHTON GAZETTE. AND LEWES 08... SERVEti. Sin—The present prevalence of fires., with the awful loss of . life and property, exhibit a sad proof of the backwardness of science, as applied to practical purposes. In the present high state of civilization of the British empire, a premium offered by our Liberal Government for the best method of preventing accidents from the ignited flue, for fa cilitating the escape of persons from the upper storks of a half. consumed house, and many other things that would tend to improve the condition and safety of the sub j ect, would be likely to bring more real good to the " homes of England," and to the moral stamina of British glory, than anything they have yet done. I have lately devoted my thoughts to these things, and I send yo:: the following attempt at the construction of a fire rroo` bookcase, that, if you should think it capable of being iniproved by public;t:f, or call forth a more complete plan, you may use it acoordingly. l beg also to state my opinion of the present safes ; namely, that no safe yet constructed will pres-rve anything whatever within it, when red-hot through ; and I have heard of an article of the kind Which had its top meltc.d in. Suppose an iron frame, or case, something like the common long family clock-case, say 15 feet long and 21 feet wide, by feet from back to front, with an iron press or bookcams made to slide up and down in it, after the manner of a sash window, with weights and iron chains ; it might he raised by a small winch. and lowered the same way. This safe is to be fitted up with drawers and tin boxes according to circum stances, completely waterproof ; and the frame so fixed that the bottom of it shall rest either in a vault or under ground, according to the nature of the premises and the wish of the owner. When wound up to the top, the front of the frame being open, it becomes accessible in the c. counting-bou,s; when lowered to its keep (like the sash of a carriage) 3t completely out of the reach of fire, and an upper shelving cor nice to the frame would render it almost equally safe front water. The method of securing it is obviously to let it down at night ; or, indeed, it might be always down, when not in immediate requisition. The plan may be deemed very crude, yet still worth soma consideration ; for which purpose it is humbly submitted by, Yours, &c., ZOAR. ENGLISH PATRONAGE of FOREIG: ART. (From the Illechanics' Magazine.) Our readers may remember that in our recent analysis of the Parliamentary report on the Royal Mint, some space was devoted to a notice of a certain Signor Pistrucci, who enjoys a suite of apartments and a snug salary at the expense of the British public, without condescending to render any quiff Pro quo in the shape of services. We are happy now to annottuc a that the signor is at last, after a repos e of fourteen yowl° about to favour John Bull with a specimen of his abilities as a medalist. The coronation medal of our young Queen has beets entrusted to his hands, and (which is something more to the purpose) Signor Pistrucci has undertaken to execute it; s° that, both parties being agreed, it is to be hoped somethingmay be done, and that, too, in rather less time than the g ran, medal in hanger of the British army , wh i c h the si g nor has ha° in active preparation since shortly after the bat tle of aterlq W which is still unfinished, and likely enough to continue so the end of the next war. It has excited some surprise in many quarters that the coat' mission should have been conferred on Signor Pistrucci, wllil,a the native artist who executed the coronation meda l of Wir, Liam IV., Mr. William Wyon, stood ready to receive it. ir first sight, indeed, it may seem perfectly proper that , as tZ: Signor receives his salary in quality of " Chief Medalist," t".; task should fall to his share, it being taken for granted thaS, l : would form part and parcel of his official duties. N., however a mistaken notion ; Signor Pistrucci conceives tha he pockets his salary only that the barbarous English m i , ll „ / have the satisfaction of saying that they have an actual Ita" 1- , artist for " Chief Medallist," and holds accordingly that a id, no duties to perform at all. He is therefore to be pa t o ! and to paid handsomely, for Queen Victoria's coronation medal, his paltry fee at the Mint going on as usual, and he , I usual, doing absolutely nothing for it. It should seem, i" de h e e d to be owing only to the rage for economy which d istingoia" the commencement of the last reign that a Britis h eagrave t was then employed. Signor Pistrucci was applied to o n th .r a occasion, but the sum offered he considered beneath the not2ceo of a foreign artist of his pretensions, and Mr. Wyon was favoured with the commission at the reduced pittance. Na an that a more liberal remuneration is resolved upon, the Italia steps in again, and the Englishman is left to his awn retie!'" tions on the patronage his countrymen award to native talenato Signor Pistrucci appears not to be without his among the periodical press ; or, if not, it is rather strangewth_, just at the present juncture the newspapers should me rits of paragraphs speaking in a depreciating strain of .the nier' c ' s e the new coinage, now on the eve of making its aPPe arl , n . a course the very reverse of that most usually pur „ which will soon be seen, the new coin be really so tasta i l: a l d design and rude in execution as these paragraphs w ould , ar us to believe, the circumstance will assuredly be most re one able ; since it is a well-known fact that the coinage ha s g hat on regularly improving under the hands of Mr. Wyon, 5 0 t • the recent specimens leave those produced under the sup er in tendence of Signor Pistrucci far, far behind. The public may, partiz. at perhaps, when the proper time comes, demur a little to the verdict of the unknown paragraphist who is so eager to fore.- stall their judgment on the matter; meanwhile of one thing we may be pretty certain, that Mr. Wyon has not displayed bad taste enough to place his own name at full length in the most conspicuous situations on both sides of the coin ! SIR WALTER SCOTT'S MONUMENT.—On Fri day, the Committee on Sir Walter Scott's Monument Met at Edinburgh, pursuant to adjournment, to consider the Report made to them by the Sub-Committee recommending that the architectural design by Mr. Kemp, combined wit h the statlo by Mr. Stecll, should be adopted. The Lord Provost L o yd the chair. After considerable discussion, in which ~ 'Melville, Dr. Hope, the Duke of Buccleugh, the Lord Chief ques u r o t il Justice Clerk, and other gentlemen took part, the was put, Sir John Hope's motion, approving of the ReP l , (3 fr ' recommending Mr. Kemp's design, in combination with '• Steell's group ; or Lord Meadowbank's amendment, motion proving of the same—when twenty-one voted for the inotioni and ten for the amendment—majority for Messrs. hemp an d Steell's designs, eleven. An addition to the motion prope'e,. by Sir William Rae was then put, and unanimously • Sir John Robinson, seconded by the Lord Justice Clerk, P r l , o posed that the subscription list be re-opened, which was: minted unanimously agreed to. The following were then aPP"' n . a Committee to superintend the execution of the buildinglifr, Sir \Villiam Rae, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Dr. HeP e ' '. T. Thomson, mid Mr. \Villiam Burn. It was remitted to thet same Committee to consider of a proper site for the monernettbe; and to report to the general meeting. The thanks of t meeting were voted to the Sub-Committee, who had drawn uP the Report of the first day of meeting of the General C°l4,; mittce. Thanks having been voted to the Lord Provost/ iu his conduct in the chair, the meeting separated. Bouland, a rich farmer and Mayor of Sain t ' carrie,ci ville, Seine-et-Oise, was returning a few ays since frhißi 9 rll Magny by the wood of Arthies, when a person shot at and wounded him in the thigh, a little above the knee. The femoral artery was cut by the balls, and he bled to death, while his horse coming home alone, covered with bloo d, led t° the discovery of the murder. T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47, Coolly London ( Seven Doors fromGracechurch-street), informs th e Pub l ie that he offers DESSERT FRUIT KNIVES and FORKS, Wiee plain ivory handles, sillier ferrules, plated on steel blades, at Vi r go Guineas per dozen pair, or with solid silver blades, at Eight Guiu' l and a Half per dozen pair. N. B. Carved ivory handles at 13s. 6d. extra per dozes pair' B IR T.H S. On the Bth inst., in Hunter-street, Brunswick.square, the 13(1 of the Hon. R. V. Powys, of a son. On the 10th inst., at Clapham.rise, the lady of IL H. Dett e°ll ' Esq., of a son. of On the 9th inst., at Dulwich, the lady of E. Chapman, Esq'' the On n g Iner Temple, of a dauhter. the 9th inst., at Howroyde, Yorkshire, the lady of Lie ut... Colonel Horton, of a son. On the 30th ult., at Stockholm, Mrs. J. Paten, of a son. we , On the 10th inst., at Chelsea, the wife of the RCY. J . ° of a son. On the 11th inst., at Nelson-house, Kingsland, the lady of Ge ° ' Gabain, Esq., of a son. Richa rd On the 12th inst., at Chatham-place, Blackfriars, Mrs. Marshall, of a daughter. MARRIED. gents On the 10th inst., at the parish church, Halifax , gr. Thom Clerk, of Upper Clapton, to Anne, youngest daughter of Tb° Miln o e, st. 10th i Esq., f Cliff-hill, near Haax, Yorkshi. On the n, at Kensington, lif Thos.Wilkie, re Esq., of Vicarage' place, to Margaret, daughter of R. Forbes, Esq., Kensingten;rh o s. On the 10th inst., at St. Martin's Church, Westminster , jn the Rickard, Esq., of Montpelier House, Brighton, to Mary An", eldest daughter of W. Bourn, Esq., of Gainsboroughincolti• DIED. e . en erill On the 10th inst., at the residence of A. Godby , Esq., v.,410W Post Office, Dublin, after only three days' illness, Frances,'; the late Colonel Godby, of the Royal Artillery. Steve n- On the 10th inst., in Woburn square, Jane, wife of W. - son, Esq., barrister-at-law. h im of On the sth inst., at Kensington, aged 12, Mary Lou isa, c E. On Leathes, Esq., of Hopland Hall, Suffolk. the 6th inst., Eliza, Andover I, , P c . ' tori- Jane, the wife of John Owen, of St. Andrew's-hill, commons, aged 41. wife of Mr. E. 13. Hawkins, linendraper' On the 9th irist GattY, in On the ,„.. lii s 52 the On tllth ult., at Malta, Captain Pigott, of the 4btli Be' ment, second son of John Pigott, Esq., late Lieut.-Colonel 11°Y3 Bucks Militia. On the 1 lth inst., aged 10, Catherine Mary, only child of / 4 ' Edwards, Esq., of Crawfurd-street. of On the 10th inst., Eliza, eldest daughter of P. Button, Esq„ Winnington, Essex. On the 10th inst., at Ealing-green, Ann, relict of the late Pet er Barlow, Esq. On the Bth inst.. at Dovecot, near Liverpool, Adam Dugalle' Esq., la of Manc On the 11th inst. in Dorset-square, Wm. Plunke tt, Esq., De puty Chairman of the hester. Board of Excise, aged 67. On the loth inst., at Moulton Vicarage, Lincolnshire, Frances, daughter of the late E. Latter, Esq., of Bromley , Kent, solicitor, aged 26. On the 11th inst., at Manor-place, Walworth , aged 21, Mr. Francis Townes, grandson of Mr. Thos. Townes, Cheapside. On the 10th inst., Mr. Edw. Young , of Broad-street, Ratcliffe. ~ in t] tarterl touse, Lomas ______—_, London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG. •Ir l4 °' 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 11 0 , Strand, in the county il INliddlesex.—Saturday, April 14, 1838.